A Home Office study of international drug laws is to get under way this week with a visit to Portugal...
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Bolivia’s Morales seeks legitimate coca market
Bolivian President Evo Morales has tried to develop legitimate markets for his country’s thousands of acres of coca plants, despite...
Singapore: 169 arrested, drugs seized in anti-crime blitz
A series of Home Team operations in the first 10 days of May saw the arrests of 169 people, and...
Know your mafia! Russian mafia cards released in the US
A deck of cards has been produced in the US featuring the faces of key figures in the Russian mafia....
New Zealand: Drug smuggler Gary Read heading for prison
Gary Read now awaits sentencing after pleading guilty to Class A drug charges. The police are now looking to confiscate...
Tennessee hospital treats drug-dependent babies
In 2008, East Tennessee Children’s Hospital treated 33 infants at the hospital for drug dependence, known as neonatal abstinence syndrome....
Legalizing marijuana could reverse New Jersey progress on addiction
It seems obvious that more people will use a substance deemed legal and presumably safe by government, than they will...
Drugs secretly tested on East Germans
Western drug companies tested pharmaceuticals on more than 50,000 people in the former communist East Germany, often without the knowledge...
Montana goes its own way on marijuana
If American society’s tolerance for marijuana is now growing, then what happened in Montana illustrates just what can happen when...
Britain’s marijuana mafia: Two million users, £6bn worth of trade and 30,000 deaths
A total of 750,000 cannabis plants were recovered by the police in 2009-10. Independent Drug Monitoring Unit says UK consumes...